Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 40

• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Justice, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.69, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Rays, Atoms

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• ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Wall, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Needs, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feel Good, Mind, Avenues

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.64, Coyote Canyon Press

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• We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Vices, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.385, Library of America

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• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Evermore, Screens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

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• Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Farewell, Platforms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.52, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Hero, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

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• To clothe the fiery thought
  In simple words succeeds,
  For still the craft of genius is
  To mask a king in weeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Kings, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.85, U of Nebraska Press

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• To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Flower, Thinking

  "The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures", Vol. 1, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2006.

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• Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Spiritual, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

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• All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Nouns, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

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• The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Bud, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Skills, One Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Found, Reception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America

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• We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Penguin

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• The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Action, Circumstances

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.144

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• We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Men, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

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• We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Catholic, Humanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.264, Harvard University Press

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• In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Light, Meditation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Unsaid, Discourse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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